Pierre Étaix Movies

Michel takes up pickpocketing on a lark and is arrested soon after. His mother dies shortly after his release, and despite the objections of his only...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Martin LaSalle

Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Federico Fellini

The wife of a British diplomat in Paris takes a chimpanzee as her lover.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Anthony Higgins

Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: France Arnel

A filmmaker finds creative freedom more elusive than he imagined in this ironic comedy-drama. Tired of the state-appointed producers and censorship...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dato Tarielachvili

In the French harbor city of Le Havre, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa into the path of Marcel Marx, a well-spoken bohemian who works as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: André Wilms

The story follows the son of a millionaire from the 1920s to the 1960s. After losing his fortune in the stock-exchange crash, he teams up with an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Étaix

Since the early days, Jerry Lewis—in the line of Chaplin, Keaton and Laurel—had the masses laughing with his visual gags, pantomime...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jerry Lewis

An anthology film consisting of four stories. (1) A man reads a Dracula novel while in bed, but cannot seem to tell the novel from reality, causing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Étaix

A portrait documentary tracing the inspiration, philosophy and imagination of the celebrated theatre and screen writer - and Bunuel's long term...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Brook

Pierre Etaix’s most radical film, and perhaps unsurprisingly the one that effectively ended his career in cinema, Land of Milk and Honey is a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pierre Étaix

Pierre married Florence, the only daughter of a small industrialist. 15 years later, he is the boss, but his middle-class life worries him a lot....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Étaix

Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets drunk, a husband...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Étaix

A man receives a breakup letter from his sweetheart, who sends him back his photo, in pieces. The pained lover decides to reply. Fountain pen,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Étaix

Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patrick Jouané

Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Carmet

Only on the stage of an empty theater, an author and his wife clash: the scene and the life end up getting confused.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Étaix

Short film by Pierre Etaix, edited out from Tant qu'on a la santé

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Roger Trapp

Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Étaix

A documentary directed by Eric Friedler about Jerry Lewis' never released movie "The Day The Clown Cried".

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jerry Lewis

A documentary on the career of famed French clown and filmmaker Pierre Étaix.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Pierre Étaix

A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines ...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Jacques Dufilho

French pantomimist Pierre Étaix plays an insomniac who makes the mistake of trying to read himself to sleep with a book about vampires.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Pierre Étaix

It's about a couple owning a small hotel who are trying to sell it.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Lefebvre

Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few strings to his advantage, the unfortunate...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Christian de Tillière

"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Birkin

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paul Grimault

In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo

A young man wakes up one day transformed into a giant insect.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Madeleine Robinson

A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eddie Constantine

When he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty mistress and must begin life anew, without the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Séverin Blanchet

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacques Tati

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-François Balmer